His call for "honest" taxes operated on the premise that his opponents would flinch before the prospect of a divisive debate about transparent taxes.
Visionary though he was, he did not foresee that, in the twentieth century, some armies would not flinch from the prospect of genocidal war.
And once he got the power he never flinched from using it, making more than 275 elective appointments per year.
In all those ceremonies, the young men undergoing pain are expected to manifest impassivity - in other words, to endure without flinching.
A person might cause another to flinch by scaring her.
In such a case, the manipulator does not believe that flinching is somehow the prudent response to fear or that the person who flinches believes this.
In his letters to her, he never flinches from this lofty position, constructing and maintaining an emotional moat between the two of them that he thought for the best.
They flinched not against any dangers; they were courageous even unto death.
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